Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

[Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>]

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andy wrote:
| Paul Cartwright wrote:
|> On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
<snip>
| This sounded like a pretty straight forward response.
|
| Once I downloaded the packages and went to install, this is what I got:
|
| ~$ sudo dpkg -i libofx4_0.9.0-2.1_i386.deb
| (Reading database ... 178403 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to replace libofx4 1:0.9.0-2.1 (using
| libofx4_0.9.0-2.1_i386.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement libofx4 ...
| dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libofx4:
|  libofx4 depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however:
|   Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5.
|  libofx4 depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4); however:
|   Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.1.1-21.
| dpkg: error processing libofx4 (--install):
|  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  libofx4
|
| Hmmm ... not so cool. So this is where I am stuck. Especially since
| apt-get install libstdc++6 seems to kick up an error about version
| numbers, wherein the present installed version is more recent than the
| recommended version number.
<snip>
| Cheers
|
| Andy (he who is dubious about traversing Dependency Hell)

Just wondering if you've tried the Debian Backports site for the packages you
need?  If they are there, they should install with no problems.  If not, my
best suggestion would be to grab the source, and compile it yourself, then make
a .deb out of it and use the normal method to install what you just compiled.

Chris
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